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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

A Puzzling Post Goes to Europe

Our son and his fiance are on a twelve-day trip through England, France and Italy. The trip is guided by EF College Study Tours as a class at Fort Hays State University, where they are students. In honor of their trip, I have created a puzzle featuring thirteen of the many sights they'll be seeing. How many can you identify? Bonus point for finding my first-born.

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I also created a scavenger hunt for the kids to have fun with - and maybe learn a little extra. Here is what they need to find in order to collect the prize:In London:

Four lions guarding Admiral
Horatio Nelson

A bookstore on Charing Cross Road

A street performer or artist

The Elizabeth Tower

Location of the wedding of Prince
William and Catherine Middleton

The burial place of an English
monarch

BONUS:Sing “Yellow Submarine” (or the Beatles song
of your choice) while walking on Abbey Road

In Paris:

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
from World War I

Temple of Love

The Rose Window

"You'll note the flying buttresses." - name the movie quoted and the location of these specific buttresses:

Someone with the last name Roach (Dave's cousin lives in Paris with his wife and two children. Hopefully they can meet up with at least one of them.)

In Italy:

A copy of Michelangelo’s statue of
David

Something designed by Filippo
Brunelleschi

The Creation of Adam

Fountain of the Four Rivers
(“Water” from the book Angels and Demons by Dan Brown)

2 comments:

Tricky! From the pictures I recognized right away: Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Pisa, Florence, Versailles, the Eiffle Tower, Big Ben and the Collosseum.

Your scavenger hunt is pretty neat, they will have their hands full. Is the bokkstore on Charing Cross Road still there? I don't think so. Unless they rebuilt it...I'd definitely find the David sculpture. You can't miss it. Copy or not, it is lovely.